History of Photography - Spring 2018
Dr. Leslie Parr CMMN A465-001, M W 3:30-4:45 CMMN 305 [email protected] Office: CMMN 306, ext. 3649 Office hours: T TH 2-3:30; M W 1:30-3:30; and by appt.
Course Description and Objectives: This history of photography course covers the period from the invention of photography in 1839 to the present. We will study photographs from the daguerreotype to the computer-based image and analyze them from aesthetic and historical perspectives.
Expected Student Learning Outcomes: In accordance with ACEJMC accreditation values and competencies, upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
-- demonstrate an understanding of the history and role of professionals and institutions in shaping communications
-- demonstrate an understanding of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in domestic society in relation to mass communication
-- think critically, creatively and independently
-- conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions in which they work
--write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve
Texts: Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography. (New York, Abbeville Press, 4th ed., 2007), ISBN: 978-0789209375, Loyola Bookstore: new $45.00, used $33.75, rent used $9.00.
Russell Miller, Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History. (New York: Grove Press, 1997). ISBN: 978-0-8021-3653-4, new $16.00, used $12.00, rent $7.04.used Used
Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Without Limits. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), ISBN: 978-0-393-33905-5, new $24.95, used $18.75, rent $4.99.
All texts will also be on reserve for check out at Monroe Library. Assignments:
Oral presentation: You will present a 10-minute PowerPoint talk on a major photographer and submit a written outline and a complete bibliography of all sources consulted on the day of the presentation. You cannot read your report. You are expected to have thoroughly mastered the material you are presenting to the class and deliver the information in an engaging and professional manner. We’ll talk more about this in class.
Tests and quizzes: Both the midterm and the final will be essay-format exams. You must take the tests on the assigned date. I will not give make-ups, barring exceptional circumstances.
You should be prepared for unannounced quizzes. No make-ups will be given for missed quizzes or exams, barring exceptional circumstances. You are expected to have read assignments before class, participate in class discussions and critiques and be prepared to take a quiz on that day’s reading.
You will also take tests on two books: Dorothea Lange: A Life Without Limits and Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History.
Paper: You will write a brief review of a gallery exhibition.
Attendance policy: Attendance is mandatory. You are expected to attend all classes and to come to class on time. If you are marked absent because of tardiness, you must tell me at the end of that class so I can make the correction. That is the only time you can expect to have an absence erased from your record.
If you are unable to attend class for any reason, you must contact me prior to the class meeting by either phone and/or email. Unexcused absences may result in a failing grade for the course. Remember, no late work will be accepted.
If you miss a class, you are responsible for getting notes and information from a classmate
Classroom decorum: Students are expected to come to class on time. Cell phones and laptop computers should be put away during class. Do not bring food to class. Please do not leave the room until the class is over.
Integrity of Scholarship: You must do all of your own research and writing. The section “Academic Honesty and Plagiarism” in the online 2017-2018 Loyola Undergraduate Bulletin describes Loyola's Academic Honor Code: "The Academic Honor Code of Loyola University New Orleans represents the University community’s commitment to the highest intellectual and ethical standards of honesty, integrity, fairness and justice. Violations of the Academic Honor Code include but are not limited to cheating, lying, false citations, falsified data, falsification of academic records, plagiarism, participation in any form of unauthorized collaboration, misuse or misrepresentation of academic work or the academic work of others in any manner, misuse of electronic material, and violation of academic property laws."
A violation will result in a failing grade for the course.
Blackboard and emergencies: The Blackboard system can be accessed online at http://loyno.blackboard.com. In the event of an evacuation, you will be required to check the system for announcements and responsible for all assignments posted therein.
• At times, ordinary university operations are interrupted as a result of tropical storms, hurricanes, or other emergencies that require evacuation or suspension of on-campus activities. To prepare for such emergencies, all students will do the following during the first week of classes:
1. Practice signing on for each course through Blackboard. 2. Provide regular and alternative e-mail address and phone contact information to each instructor. • In the event of an interruption to our course due to the result of an emergency requiring an evacuation or suspension of campus activities, students will: 3. Pack textbooks, assignments, syllabi and any other needed materials for each course ad bring during an evacuation/suspension 4. Keep up with course work during the evacuation/suspension as specified on course syllabi and on-line Blackboard courses. 5. Complete any reading and/or writing assignments given by professors before emergency began. Assuming a power source is available.... 6. Log on to university Web site within 48 hours of an evacuation/suspension. 7. Monitor the main university site (www.loyno.edu) for general information. 8. Log on to each course through Blackboard or e-mail within 48 hours of an evacuation/suspension to receive further information regarding contacting course instructors for assignments, etc. 9. Complete Blackboard and/or other online assignments posted by professors (students are required to turn in assignments on time during the evacuation/suspension period and once the university campus has reopened.) 10. Contact professors during an evacuation/suspension (or as soon as classes resume on campus) to explain any emergency circumstances that may have prevented them from completing expected work. Further information about student responsibilities in emergencies is available on the Academic Affairs web site: http://academicaffairs.loyno.edu/students- emergency- responsibilities Disability Services: If you have a disability that qualifies for accommodations, you should go to Disability Services in the Student Success Center, Room 112, Marquette Hall. If you need test accommodations (e.g. extended time), you need to let me know well in advance of a scheduled test and give me an official Accommodation Form.
Grading: Midterm - 20% Book tests - 15% ea. Oral report -10% Final - 25% Quizzes, attendance, class participation - 10% Gallery paper - 5%
Grade Scale: A 95-100, A- 90-94 (for exceptional work); B+ 88-89, B 85-87, B- 80- 84 (for good work); C+78-79, C 74-77, C- 70-73 (for average work); D+ 68-69, D 64-67-69, D- 60-63 (for less than average work); F below 60 (for inadequate work)
Course Outline:
Jan. 8: Introduction
1. The Beginnings
Photographers: Niepce, Daguerre, Bayard, Talbot, Lion
Jan. 10: Rosenblum, Chapter 1: The Early Years: Technology, Vision, Users, 1839- 1875
Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm
Photography: Making Daguerreotypes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Ambe4FwQk
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm
2. The Photographic Portrait
Photographers: Brady, Southworth, Hawes, Hill, Adamson, Cameron, Hawardin, Nadar, Sarony
Jan 17: Rosenblum: Chapter 2: A Plentitude of Portraits, 1839-1890 Southworth and Hawes: http://www.photographymuseum.com/showSH.html
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hlad/hd_hlad.htm
Mathew Brady and the Daguerreotype Portrait http://visualizingnyc.org/wp- content/uploads/2014/08/BradyandtheDaguerreotype_McRee.pdf
Jan. 22: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/camr/hd_camr.htm
Lady Clementina Hawarden: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/l/lady-clementina-hawarden/
"Nadar (1820-1910)" http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nadr/hd_nadr.htm
Mark Twain, Napoleon Sarony and "The damned old libel" http://www.twainquotes.com/sarony/sarony.html
3. Documentary Beginnings
Photographers: Le Gray, Jackson, O’Sullivan, Curtis, Fenton, Brady, Gardner
Jan. 24: Rosenblum, Chapter 3: Documentation: Landscape and Architecture, 1839- 1890
Gustave Le Gray: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gray/hd_gray.htm
Mission Héliographique, 1851 https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/heli/hd_heli.htm
William Henry Jackson: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1889
Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) and the West: 1860s–70s https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phws/hd_phws.htm
Photographer choices due
Jan. 29: Rosenblum, Chapter 4: Documentation: Objects and Events, 1839-1890
"Making a photograph during the Brady era" http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/animate/photitle.html
Roger Fenton (1819–1869) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rfen/hd_rfen.htm
Photography and the Civil War, 1861–65 https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phcw/hd_phcw.htm
4. Art and Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Photographers: Rejlander, Robinson, Emerson
Jan. 31: Rosenblum, Chapter 5: Photography and Art: The First Phase, 1839-1890
Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) http://www.beetlesandhuxley.com/artists/emerson-peter-henry-1856-1936.html
5. Instantaneous Photographs
Photographers: Muybridge, Lartigue, Atget, Bellocq, Van Der Zee, Genthe
Feb. 5: Rosenblum: Chapter 6: New Technology, New Vision, New Users, 1875-1925
E. J. Bellocq: http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Bellocq.html
James Van Der Zee: Death in Harlem: James VanDerZee's Funerary Portraits http://time.com/3807384/death-in-harlem-james-vanderzees-funerary-portraits/
Feb. 7: Jacques Henri Lartigue: http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/jacques-henrilartigue
Eugène Atget (1857–1927) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/atgt/hd_atgt.htm
6. Art Photography
Photographers: Stieglitz, Steichen, Kasebier
Feb. 19: Rosenblum: Chapter 7: Art Photography: Another Aspect, 1890-1920
Pictorialism in America: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pict/hd_pict.htm "Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and His Circle" https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgl/hd_stgl.htm
"Edward J. Steichen (1879-1973): The Photo-Secession Years https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stei/hd_stei.htm
Oral report: Gertrude Kasebier
Feb 21: Midterm exam
7. Photography and Social Reform
Photographers: Riis, Hine, Lange, Evans, Parks
Feb. 26: Rosenblum, Chapter 8: Documentation: The Social Scene to 1945
"Revealing Riis’s Other Half of New York" https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/revealing-riiss-other-half-of-new- york/?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FRiis, Jacob&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=strea m_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=c
Feb. 28: Lewis Hine: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
March 5: Farm Security Administration: "About the FSA Collection" https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5541
Walker Evans https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm
Oral report: Gordon Parks
March 7: Gallery Day
March 12: Dorothea Lange test
8. Photography in the Modern Era
Photographers: Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Laughlin, Strand, Weston, Cunningham, Adams, Sander
March 14: Rosenblum, Chapter 9: Art, Photography, and Modernism, 1920-1945
Photography and Surrealism https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phsr/hd_phsr.htm
The New Vision of Photography https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nvis/hd_nvis.htm Moholy-Nagy: http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Laszlo-Moholy-Nagy.html
March 19: American Modernists
Group f64 https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/f64/hd_f64.htm
Edward Weston: http://www.edward-weston.com/edward_weston_original_prints.htm
Imogen Cunningham: http://lumieregallery.net/wp/247/imogen-cunningham/
Oral reports: Clarence John Laughlin, Ansel Adams
9. Photojournalism
Photographers: Salomon, Bourke-White, Capa, Smith, Kertesz, Cartier-Bresson, Eisenstaedt, Weegee, Brassai
March 21: Rosenblum, Chapter 10: Words and Pictures: Photographs in Print Media, 1920-1980
Henri Cartier-Bresson: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERI D=24KL53ZMYN
Brassai: http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/BRASSAI.html
Oral report: Andre Kertesz
April 4: Margaret Bourke-White:
http://life.time.com/photographers/margaret-bourke-white-a-legendary- photographerslegacy/ - 1 http://life.time.com/history/buchenwald-photos-from-the-liberation-of-the-camp- april- 1945/ - 1 http://life.time.com/history/gandhi-and-his-spinning-wheel-story-behind-famous- photo/ - 1
Robert Capa: Finding a Fearless Photographer: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/finding-a-fearless-photographers- voice/ April 9: W. Eugene Smith: Magnum: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/w-eugene-smith/
Alfred Eisenstaedt: "Unforgettable Eisenstaedt: 22 Amazing Photos by a Master" http://time.com/3491299/unforgettable-eisenstaedt-22-amazing-photos-by-a- master/
Oral report: Weegee
10. Modern Photography
Photographers: Frank, Arbus, Mark, Davidson, Salgado, Iturbide, Mann, Moore, Sherman, DeCarava, Leibovitz, Weems, Griffiths, Avedon, Model, Lyon, Leroy
April 11: Rosenblum: Chapter 11: Photography Since 1950: The Straight Image
Robert Frank: 'Americans': The Book That Changed Photography http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100688154
Bruce Davidson: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERI D=24KL53ZTH6
Oral report: Danny Lyon
April 16: Diane Arbus: http://diane-arbus-photography.com/
Mary Ellen Mark: http://www.maryellenmark.com/gallery/gallery.html
Oral report: Lisette Model
April 18: Civil Rights Photography
Charles Moore, "I Fight With My Camera," YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dob4o6O2LzA
Moneta Sleet, Jr.: "Moneta Sleet Jr., 70, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies" http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/02/nyregion/moneta-sleet-jr-70-civil-rights- era-photographer-dies.html
Oral report: Ernest Withers
April 23: Vietnam photographs Liam Kennedy, “Photojournalism and the Vietnam War” http://www.ucd.ie/photoconflict/histories/vietnamwarphotojournalism/
Philip Jones Griffiths: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm& ERID=24KL535HON
Oral report: Catherine Leroy
April 25: Magnum test
April 30: Rosenblum, Ch 11: Photography Since 1950: The Straight Image
Richard Avedon: http://www.avedonfoundation.org/
Sally Mann: http://sallymann.com/
Roy DeCarava "Black-And-White Black America" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2009/10/decarava.html
Oral report: Annie Leibovitz
May 2 Graciela Iturbide: http://www.gracielaiturbide.org/en/
Sebastiao Salgado: http://www.amazonasimages.com/
Oral reports: Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman
Gallery paper due
May 9: Final exam, 2-4